[opendtv] Re: Euro Cars
- From: "Manfredi, Albert E" <albert.e.manfredi@xxxxxxxxxx>
- To: <opendtv@xxxxxxxxxxxxx>
- Date: Fri, 12 Dec 2008 17:06:16 -0500
Dan Grimes wrote:
> The Chevy Malibu wagon is the US equivalent, but not really.
> Not in finish, handling and certainly no deisel engine.
The Saturns are supposedly retaining the Opel suspension tuning,
according to articles I read in Car and Driver. If your wife doesn't
like wagons, I'd stay away from wagons and try the Aura with maybe the
3.6 liter V-6.
The other little tid-bit is that the sequence was Opel Vectra -> Pontiac
G6 -> Saturn Aura -> Chevy Maibu -> Opel Insignia. In the sense that,
says Car and Driver, the Insignia has many of the Malibu tweaks in it.
Taste is a funny thing. You're right that Americans prefer Hondas and
Toyotas, in this vehicle category. To mine eyes, they are the most
bland-looking cars on the market.
Oh, and the Toyota Tundra doesn't take second place to anyone, when it
comes to gargantuan and blunt-nosed.
To tie this back to TV, Microtune just announced a diversity tuner for
automotive DTT applications, including ATSC and ATSC M/H. Supposedly
capable of 125 mph, although I'm not sure how a tuner alone can make
that claim.
http://phx.corporate-ir.net/phoenix.zhtml?c=121862&p=irol-newsArticle&ID
=1233852&highlight=
The additional white paper and spec sheet don't really explain much,
regarding the speed claim.
Bert
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